Binge Drinking,

Lately the topic of binge drinking among college students has attracted a lot of attention. “Binge drinking is the consumption of at least five or more drinks in a row for men, and four or more drinks in a row for women,” according to the Journal of American College Health. (p.23)
A major cause of college binge drinking is the fact that under aged young adults are introduced to college life and are out on their own for the first time without any parental supervision. Normally the average American young adult graduates high school at seventeen or eighteen years of age. These young adults then apply for college to attend fall semester at a college or university of their choice.
These students usually take up residency in a dorm room on campus with another newly enrolled student, along with approximately 200 other enrolling freshmen who are about eighteen years old. This is a dangerous mixture of under-aged adults with out a mom or dad telling them how to run their free time.
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